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UVA junior Ryan Shane (Falls Church, Va.) concluded his season Monday by capturing the 2015 NCAA Men’s Singles Championship. Shane, the No. 8 seed, rallied from down a set and a break to defeat seventh-seeded Noah Rubin of Wake Forest 3-6, 7-6(4), 6-1 at the Hawkins Indoor Tennis Center on the campus of Baylor University.
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The following highway work is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper District during the upcoming week.
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A team of scientists with the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute will travel to Antarctica to find out, for the first time, how rising temperatures affect the brains and hearts of the icefish – and what it means for the rest of the world.
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Winds and rains from hurricanes or tropical storms can cause significant damage to personal property. The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety encourages residents to strengthen the critical elements of their property to protect it from hurricane damage.
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The UVA baseball team lost to NC State, 10-2, Saturday evening in the final game of pool play at the ACC Baseball Championship at Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, N.C.
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Soon-to-be-former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, for reasons known only to him, has decided to hitch his wagon to a politically-connected child molester and his reality-TV star family, in an aggressive online defense predictably casting the perpetrator and his protectors as the victims, in the place of those that he victimized.
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The Richmond Flying Squirrels (16-22) overtook the Bowie Baysox (21-20) and claimed a, 5-4, win in front of 7,219 at The Diamond on Friday night. The win came in the opener of four-game series and the first game of a weeklong homestand.
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The Salem Red Sox offensive woes continued as the Sox were shut out for the first time this season, 4-0 by the Winston-Salem Dash on Fridaynight at LewisGale Field. Salem’s losing streak has now reached five games.
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Males aren’t relevant — at least when it comes to disease transmission by mosquitoes. Researchers with the Fralin Life Science Institute at Virginia Tech have identified a gene responsible for sex determination in mosquitoes that transmit yellow fever, dengue, and chikungunya viruses.
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Northern California’s Sonoma County has been known historically as part of the natural Redwood Empire. Wine industry lobbyists re-branded it as the commercial “Wine Country.”
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